Remote Control

The Malin, a designforward work-focused membership club, brings professionals together in New York and Nashville

- Melinda Sheckells

CIARAN MCGUIGAN, FOUNDER founder and CEO of members club The Malin, is out to transform how we work, offering flexible office space designed to inspire from the furniture to the tech. Founded three years ago in New York City’s SoHo as a reaction to the pandemic workplace shift, The Malin features offices, meeting rooms and other multiuse spaces for independent professionals and small teams to book on demand or on a reoccurring basis. With the philosophy that “beautiful spaces inspire you to do your best work,” The Malin is so aesthetically pleasing that you want to get busy.

“We are setting a new standard in the future of work, how people should design offices, feel within offices, and how offices should operate,” McGuigan says. “We are focused on one thing: to provide a platform for success. The Malin is a space for people to come and crack on with their day-to-day work, with a hospitality component and operations team there to assist them with whatever their professional needs might be from Monday to Friday.”

Those who join the work-focused club choose from three options: access, which provides communal workspace; a dedicated desk with built-in power and lockable storage; or a private office with enclosed space for teams. All spaces include executive assistant services, library space for silent work, soundproof phone booths, complimentary printing, and drinks made from locally roasted coffee. For those who have chosen to work outside a traditional office, The Malin provides simple and easy connectivity to a community of like-minded professionals.

McGuigan says he has always been “hypnotized by simplicity.” “When I first came to New York, I would walk across the street to the local Laundromat. They remembered my name after the third time,” recalls the Carlingford, Ireland, native.